Show puts women artists in the picture

When the show was under preparation, Zhou resolved lots of difficulties caused by tough pandemic control policies to install her works at the exhibition space in person.

"Girls help girls. Zhou offers firm support to my show, which centers on female artists," says Zhu, adding that, in order to take part in the show, the artist refused other invitations.

Zhu says that if one needs to hold a show to center on female artists, it means that women are still not in an equal position with men. She advocates that curators provide more opportunities to females and invite more women to take part in their group shows.

Zhu is very glad to see that the majority of more than 200 artists taking part in last year's Venice Biennale — one of the world's leading art events — were female. "Society is improving, but we still need more effort," she says.